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...swindler and onetime Roosevelt employee, who was testifying during an investigation of organized crime in stock and security frauds. Under questioning by Senator Charles Percy, Mastriana told the subcommittee members that in 1968 he had been offered $100,000 by Roosevelt and Michael McLaney, a reputed associate of Gambling Czar Meyer Lansky, to kill Pindling after the Prime Minister refused to grant McLaney a gambling license in exchange for campaign contributions...
Moreover, once abandoned, any democracy at all may be hard to recover after the swirling storm of revolution. The Soviet Union emerged from its upheaval as a distorted caricature of socialist ideals. Its present Czar, Leonid Brezhnev, shakes hands with Richard Nixon, abandons North Vietnam to American terror-bombing, and refuses to send aid to Chile after the United States cuts off its support...
...Phillips will join her and watch her ride in the European equestrian championships. The normally obligatory visit to Lenin's tomb in Moscow has been dropped from Philip's itinerary, perhaps in quiet recognition of the fact that he is a cousin once removed of the late Czar Nicholas II, who was murdered with his family on orders from the Lenin-led revolutionary government...
...after "rog-ering" his wife in a London closet, he departs for the Crimea, where-you have guessed it already-he leads the charge of the Light Brigade (without meaning to), falls prisoner to Cossacks, escapes from the Russian steppes by sled, and, after many a contretemps, foils the Czar's plan to overrun India by helping a grisly band of Transcaucasians to blow up two boatloads of gunpowder...
...Califano, the jolly domestic czar for Lyndon Johnson, was in a state of near ecstasy helping to sculpt programs on housing, civil rights, health and education...